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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8193315" data-attributes="member: 177">As a moderator, I have frequently (very frequently... almost constantly) noted that people who claim to be speaking about their preferences, often use phrasing that does not indicate such explicitly.  Or they say it in the first sentence of their piece, and then continue with phrasing that drops the personal-dependence.  When I point it out, they defend themselves with, "Well, since everything in gaming is about personal preference, it should be assumed..."  or "I shouldn't have to say that, everyone knows..."  And everyone here knows what happens when you expect people to assume....This is sloppy writing that forgets how people read and consume information - if you want the audience to remember that you are speaking about personal preferences, you have to remind them of it frequently.  To maintain that understanding, the "in my opinion" and "at my table" and so on needs to be sprinkled liberally around the work for folks to keep that context, especially if your writing style is otherwise kind of officious or pretentious (because that often reads as condescending to start with), and double-especially if you don't frequently acknowledge that other speakers who disagree with you have points that are correct, and what they are doing is entirely valid gaming.  Also, on this site and many others, you are speaking to an audience that has frequent contact with (intentional or not) bad actors.  They have been battered about by people who aren't speaking about personal preferences.  Or, they have gotten into bruising arguments with people who were talking about personal preferences, but the discussion got out of control anyway.  If you sound like the things that have been damaging, the life experience of the reader will color what they see in your writing.Which amounts to a note that... very frequently, folks are so busy getting their own points across they forget to consider the audience.</blockquote>

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